HUD

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan recently announced President Obama’s selection of Jane Vincent to serve as HUD Regional Administrator the Mid-Atlantic region.

NCAHMA welcomed roughly 100 professionals to Chicago for its 2010 Affordable Housing Underwriting Conference & Annual Meeting on October 5-6. The event was one of NCAHMA’s best turnouts ever! If you missed it, don’t worry! You can download all of the PowerPoint presentations offered during the conference.

HUD has announced the availability of 500 project-based HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive (VASH) vouchers in a new competitive funding round.

HUD’s Office of Housing on September 30 issued a new (H 10-22), effective immediately, containing guidelines for assumption, subordination, or assignment of Mark-to-Market (M2M) Program Loans in transfer of physical assets (TPA) and refinance transactions.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has published Fair Market Rents for Fiscal Year 2011 for the Housing
Choice Voucher Program and Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has published the final Fiscal Year 2011 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) on the HUD USER website, effective October 1, 2010.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has published its latest issue of ResearchWorks, the official online newsletter of HUD’s Office of Policy Development & Research.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has issued a notice that requires eligible applicants intending to submit either a Planning or Implementation grant application under HUD’s FY2010 Round 1 Choice Neighborhoods Grant Program Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) to notify HUD of their intent to apply by October 7.

HUD’s Economic and Market Analysis Division has prepared a Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis Report for the Killen-Temple-Fort Hood, Texas market area.

On September 9, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the designated Difficult Development Areas (DDA) and Qualified Census Tracts (QCT) for the purposes of the 2011 low-income housing tax credit program; however, the notice omitted the tables listing the metropolitan and non-metropolitan DDAs for 2011.

House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on September 23 titled “Perspectives on the Livable Communities Act of 2010.”

In a new mortgagee letter (2010-27) dated August 30, 2010, HUD has renewed special the Department’s policy for the eligibility of projects for Mortgage insurance where Construction has started.